Peter McWilliams Quotes

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.

You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

Only the absolutely determined people succeed.

This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time.

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

Life is tons of discipline.

There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

I work so hard and so many hours, and I've done that for years and years and years.

I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.